I am in the process of doing export and import with postgres database.
I had used the following command to take the backup of postgres db
C:\dirs> pg_dump -U postgres -p 15432 -W -F t cgate-next-demo > .\dbexport_10th_February_2022.tar
Password:*****
I have unzipped dbexport_10th_February_2022.tar file and proceeded with database import. As a initial step, I had dropped the database.
#drop database if exists "cgate-next-demo";
And I had recreated the empty database.
#create database "cgate-next-demo";
In order to do this, I have logged in to psql once,
C:\dirs> psql -U postgres -p 15432
Password for user postgres:*****
postgres=#
For database import I have used the following command.
C:\dirs> psql -U postgres -p 15432 -d cgate-next-demo <restore.sql
While I do that I have got the following error. I took this excerpt from console logs.
ERROR: could not open file "$$PATH$$/6052.dat" for reading: No such
file or directory HINT: COPY FROM instructs the PostgreSQL server
process to read a file. You may want a client-side facility such as
psql's \copy.
Can someone guide on what would've caused this issue.
You are doing this in the wrong fashion. Rather than unpacking the archive, pass it as argument to pg_restore. That will do everything for you.
I have a Magento website with a 4.33 GB database. I need to manipulate some of the data so I exported the database, then zip it but when I try to import it inside phpmyadmin on localhost I get timeout error and only 1/3 of the tables get transferred. I have edited the my.ini as well as php.ini and made the execution time 6000 but the issue is not from there. I believe it should be something with Magento that is wrong.
You need to import your database using command line.
shell> mysqldump db_name > backup-file.sql
You can load the dump file back into the server like this:
UNIX
shell> mysql db_name < backup-file.sql
The same in Windows command prompt:
mysql -p -u [user] [database] < backup-file.sql
PowerShell
C:\> cmd.exe /c "mysql -u root -p db_name < backup-file.sql"
MySQL command line
mysql> use db_name;
mysql> source backup-file.sql;
Just installed sql-server on Ubuntu 16.04, 2 days ago. Using sqlcmd for bulk insert i got:
Msg 4860, Level 16, State 1, Line 6 Cannot bulk load. The file
"~/test_data.txt" does not exist or you don't have file access rights.
Yes the file did exist, i made sure of it using the command cat.
Then i tried bcp tool, but i got:
SQLState = S1000, NativeError = 0 Error = [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 13
for SQL Server]Unable to open BCP host data-file
Also tried installing visual studio code and adding mssql extension but i got the same "file access rights" warning. And already used the chmod 777 trying to fix it. Didn't work.
Command bulk insert sqlcmd:
BULK INSERT TestEmployees FROM '~/test_data.txt'
WITH(
rowterminator = ','
);
Command on bcp tool
bcp auth in path/auth2.tsv -S localhost -U sa -P <my password> -d Trabalho1BD -c
I think your problem is the '~/test_data.txt' part of your bulk insert command. Specifically, that says "find a file called test_data.txt in the home directory". But whose home directory? Not yours! It's looking for the file in the home directory of the account that's running your SQL Server. Try changing that to a full path (i.e. '/home/«username»/test_data.txt' and that should do it.
I'm using MySql 5.1 version and I'm trying to export mydatabase by cmd ,when I wrote this command :
C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin\mysqdump -uroot -ppassword mydatabase >mydatabase.sql
I get an Error
Access is denied
I don't Know what the problem
Help Pleas.....
What's your permissions on the directory you're running this command from? It may be trying to write the mydatabase.sql file to a directory you don't have permissions to.
First check if your command line recognizes mysql command. If not go to command and type in
set path=c:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.1.36\bin
Then use this command to export your database
Go to directory where you have mysql. -u - for username -p - to prompt the password
C:\xampp\mysql\bin>mysqldump -u Username -pPassword DatabaseName > DatabaseName.sql
Note:It is better to use full path of the the sql file file.sql
To export database from dump file (in this case called filename.sql) use: mysql -u username -p password database_name > filename.sql
If you are on Windows you will need to open CMD and go to directory where mysql.exe is installed. If you are using WAMP server then this is usually located in: C:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.1.36\bin (*note the version of mysql might be different)
So you will: cd C:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.1.36\bin
and then execute one of the above commands.
We are switching hosts and the old one provided a SQL dump of the PostgreSQL database of our site.
Now, I'm trying to set this up on a local WAMP server to test this.
The only problem is that I don't have an idea how to import this database in the PostgreSQL 9 that I have set up.
I tried pgAdmin III but I can't seem to find an 'import' function. So I just opened the SQL editor and pasted the contents of the dump there and executed it, it creates the tables but it keeps giving me errors when it tries to put the data in it.
ERROR: syntax error at or near "t"
LINE 474: t 2011-05-24 16:45:01.768633 2011-05-24 16:45:01.768633 view...
The lines:
COPY tb_abilities (active, creation, modtime, id, lang, title, description) FROM stdin;
t 2011-05-24 16:45:01.768633 2011-05-24 16:45:01.768633 view nl ...
I've also tried to do this with the command prompt but I can't find the command that I need.
If I do
psql mydatabase < C:/database/db-backup.sql;
I get the error
ERROR: syntax error at or near "psql"
LINE 1: psql mydatabase < C:/database/db-backu...
^
What's the best way to import the database?
psql databasename < data_base_dump
That's the command you are looking for.
Beware: databasename must be created before importing.
Have a look at the PostgreSQL Docs Chapter 23. Backup and Restore.
Here is the command you are looking for.
psql -h hostname -d databasename -U username -f file.sql
I believe that you want to run in psql:
\i C:/database/db-backup.sql
That worked for me:
sudo -u postgres psql db_name < 'file_path'
I'm not sure if this works for the OP's situation, but I found that running the following command in the interactive console was the most flexible solution for me:
\i 'path/to/file.sql'
Just make sure you're already connected to the correct database. This command executes all of the SQL commands in the specified file.
Works pretty well, in command line, all arguments are required, -W is for password
psql -h localhost -U user -W -d database_name -f path/to/file.sql
Just for funsies, if your dump is compressed you can do something like
gunzip -c filename.gz | psql dbname
As Jacob mentioned, the PostgreSQL docs describe all this quite well.
make sure the database you want to import to is created, then you can import the dump with
sudo -u postgres -i psql testdatabase < db-structure.sql
If you want to overwrite the whole database, first drop the database
# be sure you drop the right database !!!
#sudo -u postgres -i psql -c "drop database testdatabase;"
and then recreate it with
sudo -u postgres -i psql -c "create database testdatabase;"
Follow the steps:
Go to the psql shell
\c db_name
\i path_of_dump [eg:-C:/db_name.pgsql]
I tried many different solutions for restoring my postgres backup. I ran into permission denied problems on MacOS, no solutions seemed to work.
Here's how I got it to work:
Postgres comes with Pgadmin4. If you use macOS you can press CMD+SPACE and type pgadmin4 to run it. This will open up a browser tab in chrome.
If you run into errors getting pgadmin4 to work, try killall pgAdmin4 in your terminal, then try again.
Steps to getting pgadmin4 + backup/restore
1. Create the backup
Do this by rightclicking the database -> "backup"
2. Give the file a name.
Like test12345. Click backup. This creates a binary file dump, it's not in a .sql format
3. See where it downloaded
There should be a popup at the bottomright of your screen. Click the "more details" page to see where your backup downloaded to
4. Find the location of downloaded file
In this case, it's /users/vincenttang
5. Restore the backup from pgadmin
Assuming you did steps 1 to 4 correctly, you'll have a restore binary file. There might come a time your coworker wants to use your restore file on their local machine. Have said person go to pgadmin and restore
Do this by rightclicking the database -> "restore"
6. Select file finder
Make sure to select the file location manually, DO NOT drag and drop a file onto the uploader fields in pgadmin. Because you will run into error permissions. Instead, find the file you just created:
7. Find said file
You might have to change the filter at bottomright to "All files". Find the file thereafter, from step 4. Now hit the bottomright "Select" button to confirm
8. Restore said file
You'll see this page again, with the location of the file selected. Go ahead and restore it
9. Success
If all is good, the bottom right should popup an indicator showing a successful restore. You can navigate over to your tables to see if the data has been restored propery on each table.
10. If it wasn't successful:
Should step 9 fail, try deleting your old public schema on your database. Go to "Query Tool"
Execute this code block:
DROP SCHEMA public CASCADE; CREATE SCHEMA public;
Now try steps 5 to 9 again, it should work out
Summary
This is how I had to backup/restore my backup on Postgres, when I had error permission issues and could not log in as a superuser. Or set credentials for read/write using chmod for folders. This workflow works for a binary file dump default of "Custom" from pgadmin. I assume .sql is the same way, but I have not yet tested that
I use:
cat /home/path/to/dump/file | psql -h localhost -U <user_name> -d <db_name>
Hope this will help someone.
If you are using a file with .dump extension use:
pg_restore -h hostname -d dbname -U username filename.dump
I noticed that many examples are overcomplicated for localhost where just postgres user without password exist in many cases:
psql -d db_name -f dump.sql
You can do it in pgadmin3. Drop the schema(s) that your dump contains. Then right-click on the database and choose Restore. Then you can browse for the dump file.
I used this
psql -d dbName -U username -f /home/sample.sql
Postgresql12
from sql file:
pg_restore -d database < file.sql
from custom format file:
pg_restore -Fc database < file.dump
I had more than 100MB data, therefore I could not restore database using Pgadmin4.
I used simply postgres client, and write below command.
postgres#khan:/$ pg_restore -d database_name /home/khan/Downloads/dump.sql
It worked fine and took few seconds.You can see below link for more information.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/app-pgrestore.html